Do you feed your dog (or cat) your own food?

When I was a child there was no commercial pet food, so they were all fed on left-overs and they seemed to thrive. Our butcher would give us bones and sometimes the dogs had tripe.
Nobody we knew had a fridge, so food had to be used up pretty quickly.

Wish you'd had a picture!
We had a labrador who ate 3/4 of a chocolate "nest" shaped birthday cake with chocolate icing and filled with litte chocolate sugar eggs. She was very sick, had very bad diarrhoea but lay in her bed groaning with the sort of expression that said "It was worth it!"

Ha ha! gracesmum. Anyone with a dog has a story like that. My dog ate a quarter corner of the top tier of my wedding cake when we came back from our honeymoon. I trimmed it and cut it into slices, then took it into work, without even a blush. The funny thing was, it was in the middle of a large, round dining table, so he can only have got to it by climbing and eating it perched up there.

If there's one thing that annoys me it's seeing an overweight dog and hearing the owners talk about how they feed it ice cream and cakes etc. My dog does get things like the odd bit of cucumber or an apple core; bits of cheese or a carrot, but she'd never get anything with sugar in. Dogs will drool over most things that are edible, but one has to question their taste buds when they are equally happy eating cow pats! I have started giving her some tinned tripe with her dried food, because she was getting tired of having dried food every day [she told me that]. I suppose a Sunday roast with meat, vegetables and gravy is acceptable, as long as the yorkshire pudding and dessert are omitted! My last whippet did steal a bunch of grapes from the kitchen table [having always had spaniels I didn't realise how high up a whippet could reach or what thieves they were!]; she was lucky to survive because I understand grapes and dried fruit is poisonous to them, along with chocolate.

Not deliberately. "Human" food is too rich for my greyhound, but try telling her that. Because she is so tall, little is safe. She once had a go at a very large and expensive haunch of venison left out to thaw whichI had planned for a lot of people. I, (promise you won't tell anyone) trimmed off the nibbled bits, cubed the rest and did it as a casserole. Is my secret safe?